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Darwinian Pseudoscience

Dr. Heinz Lycklama

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3/17/14: Proof for the Big Bang! “Space Ripples Reveal Big

Bang’s Smoking Gun”

NY Times

“Major Discovery: 'Smoking

Gun’ for Universe's Incredible

Big Bang Expansion Found”

Space.com

“Observations confirm

‘inflation’ of early universe

to cosmological sizes in

early instant”

National Geographic

@ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 2

Origin of Life: Earth? Sea? Mars?

Science Daily, 4/25/14

“ … how the first organisms on Earth

could have become metabolically

active. … speculate how primitive

cells learned to synthesize their organic

components -- the molecules that form

RNA, lipids and amino acids. …

suggest an order for the sequence …

that led to the origin of life.”

The Telegraph, 8/28/13

“Life on Earth may have come from

Mars on an asteroid, a scientist has

claimed as he says it is the explanation

for an unusual rock.”


Origin of Complex Life

Nothing in biology makes sense

except in the light of evolution

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Evolution is a fact

Natural selection accounts for the

“apparent design” in life

Richard Dawkins

Non-coding DNA is “junk DNA”

Many evolutionists


“I hate to break it to you, but you’ve been

lied to. Shocking right? From elementary

school on, we were all told that the universe

created itself by chance, non-living chemicals

formed into a living organism with complex

genetic information and that through natural

selection, this organism grew more complex

over millions of years. What’s wrong with

this account of history? Well none of these

unproven assumptions are supported by

scientific observation.”

Dan Greenup, Christian writer


Generation Why? “Why am I here?”


Darwinian Pseudoscience

1. What Is Science?

2. Origins: Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (ID)

3. Pseudoscience of the Past

4. New Atheists & Their Books

5. Pseudoscience Today In:

a. Origin of the Universe

b. Origin of First Life

c. Origin of Complex Life

6. In Summary

1. What Is Science?

Science definitions

Modern changes

Operational science

Origins science

Naturalism (Scientism)

Materialism

What makes

science possible?

Pseudoscience

Three Impossible Hurdles for Naturalism


Science Definitions

Science – knowledge discovered by experimentation,

observation and objective investigation

Use of Scientific Method (Bacon)

Operational Science

UK Science Council definition

“Science is the pursuit of knowledge

and understanding of the natural and

social world following a systematic methodology

based on evidence.“ [pursuit, rather than established]

Origins Science

Not testable, verifiable or falsifiable


Naturalism (Scientism)

A belief denying that an event

or object has a supernatural

significance; specifically, the

doctrine that scientific laws

are adequate to account for

all phenomena


“Even if all the data point to an intelligent

designer, such an hypothesis is excluded

from science because it is not naturalistic.”

Dr. Scott Todd, KS Univ. Immunologist

Materialism

A belief claiming that physical

matter is the only or fundamental

reality and that all organisms,

processes, and phenomena can be

explained as manifestations or

interactions of matter


“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity

of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many

of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the

tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated

just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a

commitment to materialism.”

Richard Lewontin

What Makes Science Possible? *

Objective truth, e.g. John 14:6

The universe is real, e.g. Gen. 1

The universe is orderly, 1 Cor. 14:33

We can study God’s Creation

Man has both material and immaterial

aspects, Gen. 35:18; Matt. 10:28

Man can reason, made in God’s

image, Gen. 1:26


* Sarfati (CMI)

Pseudoscience Oxford dictionary definition:

Beliefs/practices mistakenly regarded

as being based on scientific method

Scientific status of a Theory depends on

falsifiability, refutability, testability (Popper)

Theory T predicts O will not be observed

O is observed

Thus T is false

With auxiliary hypotheses

T + auxiliary hypothesis A predict O will not be observed

O is observed

Thus either T or A is false

e.g. Fallacy in equating Adaptation to Evolution


Detecting Pseudoscience Signs of pseudoscience

Emphasis on confirmation rather than refutation

Use of vague or untestable claims

Lack of testing by others

Suppression of dissent

Misleading language

Attacking character of questioner

Some examples of pseudoscience

Alchemy, Astrology

Climate Change (aka AGW)

Macro-Evolution



Three Impossible

Hurdles For Naturalism

1. Origin of the universe

Matter, energy, galaxies,

stars, planets

2. Origin of first life

Non-life to life (abiogenesis)

3. Origin of complex life forms

Macro-Evolution

2. Origins: Creation,

Evolution and ID Creation

God created the universe and

all life according to its kinds

Evolution

Macro-Evolution

Molecules -> Man

Common Descent

Mutations + Natural Selection

Intelligent Design (ID)

Irreducible & Specified Complexity

Information implies an intelligent designer


“A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating

and balancing the facts and arguments on both

sides of each question.” Charles Darwin

The Meaning of Evolution 1. Artificial Selection

Plant and animal breeding

2. Change

Evolution of a coastline (random)

Evolution of a car (designed)

3. Micro-Evolution

Small variation within prescribed limits of complexity

e.g., finch beaks by mutation and natural selection

4. Macro-Evolution

Particles -> people

5. Molecular Evolution

Origin of life – assumes a mutating replicator


Only 1, 2 and 3

have been observed

5 is impossible!

4 never observed!


Natural Selection

Natural Selection Can

Decrease genetic information

Allow organisms to survive better in a given environment

Act as a “selector”

Support Creation’s “orchard” of life

Natural Selection Cannot

Increase or generate new genetic information

Allow organisms to evolve from molecules to man

Act as an “originator”

Support evolutionary “tree of life”

Selecting information that already exists

3. Pseudoscience of the Past

The fossil record

Human origins

Haeckel’s embryos

Vestigial organs

Scopes Trial claims, 1925

Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells


Evolution

Of The Gaps

Fossil Record

“Why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of

such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any

such finely graduated organic chain; and this is the most obvious

and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.”

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th Ed., 1872, p. 413.



“Human Origins” Fossils Neanderthal Man – accepted as homo sapiens

Java Man – artificial construct

Piltdown Man – proven to be a hoax

Nebraska Man – an extinct pig

Ramapithecus – an orangutan

Lucy – make-believe creature

“Unfortunately, the fossil record of pongids (apes) is

nonexistent, making a glaring deficiency in the whole story.” Steven Gould (Evolutionist)

Haeckel’s Embryos The embryos shown are (left to

right) fish, salamander, tortoise, chick, pig, calf, rabbit and human – representing 5 of the 7 vertebrate classes

Haeckel omitted two classes of vertebrate (jawless and cartilaginous fishes) entirely, and half of the embryos are mammals - thus using a biased sample

Discovered to be faked drawings later on


Vestigial Organs Organs or structures that do not

appear to have any function Oxford English Dictionary

definition: “Lost its function

in the course of evolution”

Claimed by evolutionists

to be left over from an

evolutionary ancestor

Evidence for evolution

Degenerate, atrophied

List of 86 human organs considered to

be “vestiges” by Wiedersheim in 1893 @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 22

“We must, however, acknowledge, as it

seems to me, that man with all his noble

qualities ... still bears in his bodily

frame that indelible stamp of his lowly

origin.”

Charles Darwin

Examples of Vestigial Organs


Scopes Trial in 1925: Scientific

“Evidences” Now Discredited

Neanderthal man – fully human people

Piltdown – ape jaw joined to man’s skull-cap

Nebraska – based on fossilized pig’s tooth

Embryonic recapitulation – Haeckel forged embryo drawings

Peppered moth – colors shifts, now shifted back

Vestigial organs – not evolutionary leftovers,

but part of our immune system


“Evidence” still in textbooks, but admitted to be faulty!

“Evidence” – why each was discredited

4. New Atheists & Their Books

Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2008

Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, 2009

Hawking, The Grand Design, 2010

Mazur, the Altenberg 16: An Expose of The

Evolution Industry, 2010

Stenger, The Fallacy of Fine Tuning, 2011

Krauss, A Universe From Nothing, 2012


5a. Origin of the Universe

The Big Bang (BB)

Cosmic Inflation?

Universe from nothing?

Singularity

Quantum fluctuations

Law of gravity

Fine tuning

The multiverse

String theory

In conclusion


More on the Big Bang Model Singularity exploded

Quantum fluctuations

CMBR issues

Horizon problem

Flatness problem

Monopole problem

Cosmic inflation (?)

Gravitational waves

Density waves

Expansion


Today [3/17/14] it seems that

evidence for inflation may

have been found

Proof of Cosmic Inflation? Polarization in the CMBR?

Wave phenomenon,

vibrating in all directions

Electromagnetic waves can

be polarized different ways

Only one experiment today

Evidence can fit static or expanding universe

Cosmic inflation not a single theory

If model changes, predictions change

Inflation is just one of many free parameters

Other mechanisms could mimic signal claimed

e.g. incorrect subtraction of foreground microwaves

Some other physical mechanism may be at play


3/17/14

5/12/14

Inflation Theory Bites the (Space) Dust

Space.com announcement

“ It is the announcement no one wanted to

hear: The most exciting astronomical

discovery of 2014 has vanished. Two

groups of scientists announced today

(Jan. 30) that a tantalizing signal —

which some scientists claimed was

"smoking gun" evidence of dramatic

cosmic expansion just after the birth of

the universe — was actually caused by

something much more mundane:

interstellar [space] dust.”

Data from Planck space observatory


Planck Satellite Image

CMB Background

1/30/15

Cosmology & Philosophy “I describe the history of the development of the standard big

bang cosmology and how it is understood in terms of its

philosophical underpinnings. The Cosmological Principle is

explained as the major and essential assumption upon which it

all depends. Due to this it has been required to invent unknown

stuff, expansion of space, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, CMB

radiation as afterglow of Big Bang, and Inflation. None of these

are experimental observed in the lab.”

Dr. John Hartnett, Australian Creation Cosmologist

“That barrier to knowledge, some argue, is cosmology’s

Achilles’ heel. ‘Cosmology may look like a science, but it isn’t a

science,’ says James Gunn of Princeton University, co-founder

of the Sloan survey. ‘A basic tenet of science is that you can do

repeatable experiments, and you can’t do that in cosmology.’”

Dr. James Gunn, Princeton University, Astrophysicist


In Conclusion – Origin of Universe

Big Bang “fudge” factors explained by Inflation?

Dark matter, dark energy, red shift quanta

Horizon, Flatness, Monopole problems

Cosmic Inflation is unobserved

‘Smoking gun’ is model dependent

Universe from nothing – NO

Fine tuning is real

Multiverse is speculation

String Theory/M-Theory is not science

Cosmology depends on unverifiable assumptions @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 31

5b. Origin of First Life

The Latest News

Ingredients For Life

Abiogenesis Possible?

How Did Life Begin?

Darwin’s Little Pond

Warm Little Ponds?

Ocean Vents

Panspermia

Life From Mars?

Self-assembly

In Conclusion


"The origin of life ... abounds with ...

exotic theories, which are never

entirely abandoned or accepted, but

merely go in and out of fashion.“

J. Horgan

More Recent News US News & World Report, 5/7/14

Scientists create 1st living organism from artificial DNA

Scientific American, 6/1/14

How to Search for Life on Mars

We know that liquid water once

flowed across its surface

DNA Blog, 10/10/13

How Craig Venter Created Life

Craig Venter & team have built the genome of a

bacterium from scratch & incorporated it into a cell

to make “so-called” world’s first synthetic life form

Scientific American, 6/1/14

Students build first eukaryotic chromosome from scratch


Abiogenesis Possible? Miller/Urey experiment

Earth? Sea? Mars?

Show stoppers:

Information (DNA/RNA)

Complexity, redundancy

Mathematical probability


“There is enough information

capacity in a single human cell

to store the Encyclopedia

Britannica, all 30 volumes of it,

three or four times over.” Richard Dawkins

Thus the code can not be translated

except by using certain products of

its translation. This constitutes a

baffling circle; a really vicious

circle, it seems, for any attempt to

form a model or theory of the

genesis of the genetic code.” Sir Karl Popper, Philosopher of Science

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/animalcell.html

Life By Undirected Natural Causes? No known procedure to generate life:

By unknown prebiotic mechanism

Not even in the laboratory

Probabilities of:

Working protein: 1 in 10**175

Living cell: 1 in 10**340,000,000

But life obviously exists

Not by natural causes!


“The statistical probability that organic structures

and the most precisely harmonized reactions that

typify living organisms would be generated by

accident, is zero.”

Ilya Prigogine, 1972

In Conclusion – Origin of 1st Life

Simplest life

250K base pairs

(3B in human genome)

Can’t happen here!

Primordial soup

Pond, vent, volcano

Earth, ocean, Mars

Panspermia

Self-assembly is hype

No evidence

Not testable


Mathematical probability of non-life -> life = 0!

5c. Origin of Complex Life Forms

1. Confusion of Terms Used

2. Transitional Fossils Missing

3. Life and Information

4. The Altenberg 16

5. Natural Selection in Question

6. The Myth of “Junk” DNA

7. Human & Chimp DNA Similarity?

8. In Conclusion


1. Confusion of Terms Used

Definition of Evolution

Microevolution/Adaptation vs. Macroevolution

Deceptive tactics

Strawman and bait-and-switch

Evolution – a philosophy, not science

Not testable, verifiable or falsifiable

Circular reasoning

Natural selection – the fittest are those who survive,

and those who survive are the fittest

Age – geological layers with index fossils


Macro-Evolution?

A world-famous chemist tells

the truth: there’s no scientist

alive today who understands

macroevolution,

March 2014


Professor James M. Tour

Dawkins’ Deceptive Tactics

Knocking down strawman arguments

Refuting a caricature of

opponent’s position

Kind is broader than species

Natural selection is not

unique to Evolution

Equivocation (bait-and-switch)

Meaning of Evolution

Change in gene frequency with time

Descent with modification

Examples of alleged Evolution in action



Cambrian layer contains fossils of most Phyla known to man

Only soft-bodied organisms (e.g. worms) found in pre-Cambrian strata

Number of species fossilized in higher layers decreases in each higher layer

2. Transitional Fossils Missing


“Living Fossils” Coelacanth fish

“Extinct” about “70 million years” ago

Live fish found in 1938

“25-million-year-old” termite fossils in amber

Identical to termites living today

Darwin predicted fossils would show changes in fossil record over the years

Fossil Record – Circular Reasoning

Reformulated theory of Evolution in 1970’s

Cladistic methods do not identify ancestors

Punctuated equilibrium explains away failure of

Darwinian theory

Evolutionists see patterns in fossil record:

Absence of change, i.e. stasis

Large morphological gaps between lifeforms

Absence of clear ancestors and lineages

Lack of evidence + “fact” of Evolution =

punctuated equilibrium


Fossil Evidence?


Dotted lines – probable range of group of animals; Solid lines – fossil evidence


Evolution presupposition

The universe consists of only two material fundamental entities – mass and energy

Creation presupposition

There is a third entity – information

Information is encoded within the DNA/RNA of all plant and animal cells

Life = material + (nonmaterial) information

Information has the following four components:

Code, meaning, action, purpose

3. Life and Information


Information in Biological Systems Code: 4 letters – adenine (A),

cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T)

Words (codons) composed of 3 letters

Meaning: each 3-letter word represents 1 of the 20 amino acids necessary for protein formation

Sequence of codons in the DNA represents sequence of amino acids in a protein

Action: proteins needed for construction, function, maintenance, reproduction of the organism and its cellular components

Purpose: reproduction of life

4. The Altenberg 16

An expose of the evolution industry

Author: Suzan Mazur, journalist

Meeting of 16 Evolution scientists

Austria, July 2008

Questions about Evolution mechanisms

Discover the elusive process of Evolution

Interviews with Lewontin, Dawkins,

Margulis, etc.


“hundreds of other evolutionary scientists who contend

that natural selection is politics, not science …”

Suzan Mazur, 2008

Neo-Darwinian Mechanisms?

“We are grappling with the increasing feeling … that we

just don’t have the theoretical and analytical tools

necessary to make sense of the bewildering diversity and

complexity of living organisms”

(from the invitation to attend the Altenberg conference, p. 31).

“Basically I don’t think anybody knows how

evolution works [emphasis added]” (Jerry Fodor, p. 34).

“She [Lynn Margulis] sees natural selection as

‘neither the source of heritable novelty nor the

entire evolutionary process’ and has pronounced

neo-Darwinism ‘dead’, since there’s no adequate

evidence in the literature that random mutations

result in new species” (Mazur, p. 257).


5. Natural Selection and Mutations

Evolution is not the same as Natural Selection

An old bait-and-switch tactic


“Natural Selection does not

explain the origin of new variants,

only the process of changes in

their frequency. But Evolution is

more than merely a change in trait

distributions or allele frequencies;

it also includes the origin of the

variation.” John Endler (Evolutionist)

6. The Myth of “Junk” DNA

“Junk DNA” term coined in 1972

Vast majority of the genome (~ 98%)

that does not code for proteins

“Junk” DNA sequences serve no

biological purpose, evolutionary

remnants

Argument used by (even in 2004):

Dawkins, Futuyma, Miller, Coyne,

Avise, Kitcher, Shermer, Collins

Claimed to be evidence against ID

Relies on theological speculations


Some DNA History

1953: DNA double helix discovered

1970: some DNA doesn’t encode

proteins

1986: Denton – Theory in Crisis

2003: Human Genome project done

2006: Collins – evidence for Evol.

2009: Dawkins – evidence for Evol.

2012: ENCODE Project completed

Worldwide scientific research effort


ENCODE Project Results Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, non-protein-coding DNA


7. Human & Chimp DNA Similarity?

Chromosomes (human=23; chimp=24)

Evolutionary assumptions

Genome sequence about 98.8% same

[Incomplete sequencing]

Creation assumptions

Common designer

95% same counting insertions/deletions

Shorter telomeres in humans

10% larger chimp genome

Anzai study 86.7% same


Tomkins/Bergman (2012)

Similarity re-evaluated using omitted data

Used prescreened samples/data

Dissimilar data omitted

Gap data often discarded

Using highly selective data

Influenced by Darwinian dogma

Touted 98% similarity

Using data from various publications

Include 2005 Chimp genome report

87% identical, perhaps even 81%


8. In Conclusion – Complex Life

Must use terms consistently

Avoid bait-and-switch & strawman arguments

Transitional fossils still missing

Stasis, gaps between life forms, missing ancestors

Life requires mass + energy + information

Altenberg 16 expose fallacy of Evolution mechanism

Natural Selection is not Evolution

Most mutations are not beneficial (no new info)

“Junk DNA” is a myth

Not result of Evolution, 98% -> 20% -

Human & chimp DNA very different

1.5% (Evolution bias) -> 20+% (include all differences)


Belief on Origin of the Universe

A Crisis at the Edge of Physics, NY

Times, June 5, 2015

Belief on Life’s Origin

Real Science vs. Bill Nye the "Science"

Guy, Casey Luskin – March 15, 2015

Belief on Origin of Complex Life

Science Untethered from Evidence,

Evolution News, June 8, 2015

Post-Normal Science

Modern examples

The Verdict!


6. In Summary

A Crisis at the Edge of Physics *


“Do physicists need empirical evidence

to confirm their theories?

… not necessarily, not anymore.

Supersymmetry, string theory, and

multiverse theory are the cases in point.

How are we to determine whether a

theory is true if it cannot be validated

experimentally?

Today, our most ambitious science can

seem at odds with the empirical

methodology that has historically given

the field its credibility.”

* From an article in Nature, Ellis and Silk, June 5, 2015

Belief On Life’s Origins


“When you have a portion of the population

that doesn't believe in [evolution], it holds

everybody back. Evolution is the

fundamental idea in all of life science. ...

And I say to the grown ups, if you want to

deny evolution and live in your world that's

completely inconsistent with everything we

observe in the universe, that's fine. But don't

make your kids do it because we need them.

We need scientifically literate voters and

taxpayers for the future. We need engineers

that can build stuff, solve problems.

Real Science vs. Bill Nye the "Science" Guy, Casey Luskin – March 15, 2015

Nye’s Proof: Miller-Urey experiment; human/chimp DNA differs by < 2%

Science Untethered From Evidence *


•“Biology largely retains its faith in the unguided

Darwinian mechanism, despite mounting evidence against

its power to generate complex life forms.”

* From article in Evolution News, June 8, 2015

•“A fossil find adds another twig to the human

evolutionary tree, giving further evidence that the well-

known “Lucy” species had company in what is now

Ethiopia, a new study says.”

•“A lower jaw, plus jaw fragments and teeth, dated at

3.3 million to 3.5 million years old, were found in the Afar

region of northern Ethiopia four years ago.”

•“That shows a second human ancestor lived in about the

same area and time frame as Lucy’s species, researchers

said. But not everyone agrees.”

Fossils Show New Human Forerunner, AP News, May 27, 2015

Post-Normal Science Normal science

Leads to theory formulation

Post-normal science where:

Facts are uncertain

Values in dispute

Stakes high

Decisions urgent

Modern examples

Global Warming (GW)

(Macro) Evolution


Dr. Jerome Ravetz

Are scientists ready to embrace theories devoid of evidence? World Mag., 6/16/15

Post-Normal Science & GW “It has been labeled “post-normal” science.

Climate change seems to fall in this

category. Disputes in post-normal science

focus…on the process of science – who gets

funded, who evaluates quality, who has the

ear of policy… The IPCC is a classic

example of a post-normal scientific activity.

Within a capitalist world order, climate

change is actually a convenient phenomenon

to come along.

The danger of a “normal” reading of science

is that it assumes science can first find truth,

then speak truth to power, and that truth-

based policy will then follow…exchanges

often reduce to ones about scientific truth

rather than about values, perspectives and

political preferences.”



The Verdict !! Science is possible because of the laws of nature

Fixed by God, Jer. 33:25

Origin of the universe requires a Designer

Created + fine-tuned for life

Origin of first life requires a Designer

Life = mass + energy + information (DNA)

Origin of complex life forms requires a Designer

Life = material (mass + energy) + immaterial (info)

“Evolution Gaps”

Just-so evolution stories

Failed in the past, fail now, will fail in the future


Thank you

for your

attention!

Dr. Heinz Lycklama; [email protected]; HeinzLycklama.com

Beware of Pseudoscience!

“The Ethos of Science: 1) open questioning, 2) no authorities, 3) honesty,

4) transparency, 5) reliance on evidence, 6) understanding uncertainty,

7) peer review, and 8) testability – can make the world a better place by

burying myth, superstition, and dogma and fanatical certainty.” Dr. Lawrence Krauss

1 Th. 5:21, but test everything; hold fast what is good

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